History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

On June 9, 1912 eight people, including six children, were brutually murdered in the small town of Villisca, Iowa. More than 100 years later, the murders remain unsolved.

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On October 1, 1997, 16-year-old Luke Woodham, killed two students and injured seven others at his high school. Before the shooting at Pearl High School began, Woodham stabbed and bludgeoned his mother to death in his home.

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Donald Harvey was a nurse who claims to have murdered 87 people between 1970 and 1987.  Known as the "Angel of Death"  he is currently serving 27 consecutive life sentences at the  Allen Correctional Institution in Ohio. 

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On June 28, 1914, 19 year old Gavrillo Princip shot and killed two people and the world has never been the same.

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Alfred Packer was an American prospector who confessed to cannibalism during the winter of 1873–1874. He and 5 other men attempted to travel through the high mountains of Colorado during the peak of a harsh winter. They ran out of food when the snow became too deep for travel. Alfred confessed to eating some of his companions and using their flesh to survive his trek out of the mountains two months later.

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In 1917, the notorious exotic dancer Mata Hari was arrested on the charge of espionage; less than one year later, she was tried and executed, charged with the deaths of at least 50,000 gallant French soldiers. The mistress of many senior Allied officers and government officials, even the French minister of war, she had a sharp intellect and a golden tongue fluent in several languages; she also traveled widely throughout war-torn Europe, with seeming disregard for the political and strategic alliances and borders. But was she actually a spy? 

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On August 14, 1936 more than 20,000 people showed up, in Owensboro, Kentucky, to witness the last public execution held in the United States.

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On May 19, 1920 The Stone Mountain Coal Mine Corporation sent hired guns into Matewan, West Virgina to squash attempts by Coal Miners to unionize. This lead to a deadly shoot out that became known as the Matewan Massacre.  It was followed a year later by the largest armed rebellion since the civil war, when 10,000 armed Coal Miners took on the coal mining industry's private army at Blair Mountain, West Virgina. 

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H.H. Holmes was one of America's first serial killers. During the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, he lured victims into his elaborate Hotel or "murder castle." Guests checked in, but they didn't check out.

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The Influenza pandemic of 1918 infected 500 million people across the world, including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and killed 50 to 100 million of them—three to five percent of the world's population—making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history,

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